Dear Fellow Rotarians, visitors and guests!
WELCOME TO OUR E-CLUB!
Thank you for stopping by our club meeting! We hope you will enjoy your visit.
Although our E-club has Provisional status at this time, we hope you will find the content of our meeting enlightening and will give us the benefit of your opinion on the content.
The Rotary theme for September is New Generations - Rotaract (ages 18 to 30), Interact (ages 12-18) and EarlyAct - younger elementary students.
Visiting Rotarians. If you are a visiting Rotarian, please click here or follow the link Apply for a Make-up to receive a make-up confirmation. You will be asked to send an email to our Membership Chair.
Members. If you are a member of the club, please follow this link to Club Member Attendance Record to give you details of what you need to include in your email.
Happy Hour Hangout. Each Wednesday evening at 6:00 (USA-ET) we meet for a live chat and sometimes business discussion. If you are interested in dropping by, please click here to send us an email request for an invitation to our HHH. (...or send an email to Kitty at ladykitt@sympatico.ca) Drinks are on the house! (Your house, that is...) Hope to see you there!
Interested in joining us? If you would like to become a member of our E-club, please follow the link Membership Application and Information.
Finally - If you would like to see a specific topic addressed in these meetings, please let us know. We want to make the meetings educational, interesting, and very worthwhile for everyone. Our Provisional President, Kitty, would now like to welcome you to this week's meeting. Please listen in...
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Now, please meet our Rotary International President for 2012-13, Sakuji Tanaka from Japan.
- View the video below to learn more about our new RI President.
- As you watch the video, please think about some of the topics presented.
- Be prepared to comment on the video if you wish to receive a make-up.
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FIRST - A SHORT INTRODUCTION -
OUR ROTARY INTERNATIONAL PRESIDENT - 2012-13
RI President, Sakuji Tanaka, is a member of the Rotary Club of Yashio, Saitama, Japan. Tanaka would like to see Rotary "continue the vital work as the force to improve our communities."
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| Sakuji Tanaka RI President, 2012-13 |
For 32 years, Tanaka was president of Tanaka Company Ltd., a wholesale firm that went public in 1995 and later merged with other leading wholesalers in Japan. He has served as the vice-president of the Yashio City Chamber of Commerce and adviser to Arata Co. Ltd., an animal feed and pet food wholesaler. He also chaired the National Household Papers Distribution Association for Japan for eight years. Tanaka studied business at Nihon Management Daigakuin and Tokyo Management Daigakuin.
A past trustee of The Rotary Foundation, Tanaka chaired the 2009 Birmingham Convention Committee. His other service to Rotary includes RI director, regional Rotary Foundation co-ordinator, district governor, and member of the Polio Eradication Advocacy Task Force, the Permanent Fund Committee for Japan, and the Future Vision Committee.
Tanaka established an endowed Rotary Peace Fellowship, and he and his wife, Kyoko, are Paul Harris Fellows, Benefactors of the Permanent Fund, and Major Donors.
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BECOMING ICHIBAN
IF SOMETHING NEEDS TO BE DONE -
FIRST - Make yourself think about doing it.
SECOND - Create a plan for how to do it.
FINALLY - Put all of your effort into working on the plan.
Then, you will achieve your goal.
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The second order of business is the introduction of our current District Governor for District 7020 for 2012-13 - Mr. Vance Lewis of the BVI.
OUR DISTRICT 7020 GOVERNOR
A short introduction:
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| Vance Lewis District 7020 Governor 2012-13 |
Mr. Vance Lewis joined Rotary in 1991 as Charter Member of the Rotary Club of Road Town, British Virgin Islands (BVI). In 1994, he was voted Rotarian of the Year by his fellow club members.
Vance has served as Assistance District Governor for the Rotary Clubs of the BVI from 2007-2010. In 2008, he was appointed as the District Governor's Special Representative tasked with growing Rotary in the BVI. During that Rotary year, he was instrumental in overseeing the first-ever Group Study Exchange team to represent the BVI abroad, and also instrumental in overseeing the formation of the Rotary Club Sunrise of Road Town.
Vance's other District 7020 involvement includes Membership and Extension Chair, Rotary Leadership Institute (through which he is a Discussion Leader), and in 2010, he was charged with developing a Strategic Plan for the District.
DG Vance is a member of District 7020's Paul Harris Society, a Rotary Foundation Sustaining Member, a Multiple Paul Harris Fellow to Major Donor level, and a member of several Rotary Action Groups and Fellowships.
In May 2010, Vance was elected by District 7020 Leadership to serve as its District Governor for 2012-13. This was a milestone for the BVI - the first Rotarian from the BVI to serve as District Governor for District 7020.
Please view the short video below to get a "feel" for our district. We welcome District Governor, Vance Lewis!
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THE OBJECT OF ROTARY
Please read and review the Object of Rotary below. We will strive to keep the Object of Rotary in the forefront of all that we do this year.
The Object of Rotary is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise and, in particular, to encourage and foster:
FIRST. The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service.
SECOND. High ethical standards in business and professions; the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations; and the dignifying of each Rotarian's occupation as an opportunity to serve society;
THIRD. The application of the ideal of service in each Rotarian's personal, business, and community life;
FOURTH. The advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service.
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A CLIMB FOR POLIO
Click this link to view what a club in Charlotte, North Carolina, is planning for September. (A very short video.) You will land on a web page.
Click the arrow to begin the video.
Click your browser's BACK button to return to this meeting page.
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ABCs OF ROTARY (Cliff Dochterman)
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| Cliff Dochterman RI President, 1992-93 |
Was Paul Harris the first president of a Rotary club? (No.)
Was Paul Harris the first president of Rotary International? (Yes.)
There was an easy explanation to this apparent contradiction. Although Paul Harris was the founder and organizer of the first Rotary club in Chicago in 1905, the man selected to be the first president was one of the other founding members, Silvester Schiele.
By the year 1910, there were 16 Rotary clubs, which linked up as an organization called the National Association of Rotary Clubs. A couple of years later, the namne was changed to International Association of Rotary Clubs, as Rotary was organized in Winnipeg, Canada, and then in England, Ireland, and Scotland. In 1922, the name was shortened to Rotary International.
When the first organization of Rotary clubs was created in 1910, Paul Harris was selected as the first president. He served in this position for two years, from 1910 until 1912. Thus, the founder of the Rotary idea, who declined to be president of the first club, became the first president of the worldwide organization, Rotary International.
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JOKE OF THE WEEK
"I took part in the sun-tanning Olympics. I just got Bronze!"
(I know, I know - really bad!!)
To make up for that -
A group of Rotarians meet to discuss where they should hold their 10th Reunion dinner. They decide they should meet at the Gausthof zum Lowen Restaurant because the serving staff there are all very young and very attractive.
Ten years later, for their 20th Reunion, the group meets again to decide where they should celebrate. They again decide on the Gausthof zum Lowen Restaurant because the food there is very good and the wine selection is even better.
A decade later, for their 30th, they meet again to decide where they should celebrate. They choose the Gausthof zum Lowen Restaurant because they can eat there in peace and quiet, and the restaurant is also smoke-free.
Ten years later, for their 40th, they meet again to decide where they should gather. Surprise! They all agree on the Gausthof zum Lowen Restaurant because the restaurant is wheel-chair accessible and it also has an elevator.
Ten years later, the remaining members want to celebrate 50 years in Rotary. Again, they discuss where they should meet for dinner. Finally, it is agreed they should dine at the Gaushof zum Lowen Restaurant - because they've never been there before.
Ten years later, for their 20th Reunion, the group meets again to decide where they should celebrate. They again decide on the Gausthof zum Lowen Restaurant because the food there is very good and the wine selection is even better.
A decade later, for their 30th, they meet again to decide where they should celebrate. They choose the Gausthof zum Lowen Restaurant because they can eat there in peace and quiet, and the restaurant is also smoke-free.
Ten years later, for their 40th, they meet again to decide where they should gather. Surprise! They all agree on the Gausthof zum Lowen Restaurant because the restaurant is wheel-chair accessible and it also has an elevator.
Ten years later, the remaining members want to celebrate 50 years in Rotary. Again, they discuss where they should meet for dinner. Finally, it is agreed they should dine at the Gaushof zum Lowen Restaurant - because they've never been there before.
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INTERACTIVE PARTICIPATION
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Paul Harris said -
-- Peregrinations, Vol. IIIIt is well that there is nothing in Rotary so sacred that it cannot be set aside in favor of things better. This is an experimental age in a changing world, and all things which are worthwhile and progressive are the cumulative effects of preceding successes and failures.
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Don't forget to join our join our Happy Hour Hangout on Wednesday at 6:00 p.m. Miami time to discuss these videos and the meeting. Please email us for information.
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MEETING MAKE-UP
If you would like to use your stop here as a meeting make-up, please
1. Click the link at the right to Apply for a Make-up
2. Prepare your email and be sure to include all the information requested
3. Send the email to our club Membership Chair.
Our club will send both you and your club secretary a make-up certificate.
To end our meeting, please recite aloud (on your honour!) the Rotary Four-Way Test of the things we think, say, and do:
1. Is it the TRUTH?
2. Is it FAIR to all concerned?
3. Will it BUILD GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
4. Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?
Thank you for stopping by our E-club meeting! I wish you well in the next week in all that you do for Rotary!
The meeting has now come to an end. Please do have a safe and happy week! If you have enjoyed our E-club meeting, please leave a comment below.
Let's all try to become Ichiban.
Rotary cheers!
